Since joining JSOU in 2011, Mr. Edwards has overseen the JSOU Quality Assurance Program as the Director of Institutional Effectiveness. He is responsible for all student surveys, student demographics, and tailored analysis to support course improvement, accreditation, and university operations. Mr. Edwards served in the United States Army as an Air Defense Artillery (Patriot) officer at Fort Bliss and Saudi Arabia. He performed in various tactical roles to include tactics trainer, launcher platoon leader, fire control officer, battery executive officer, deployed Reduced Readiness Battery commander, and battalion operations officer. In 2005, Mr. Edwards joined the Directorate of Combat Developments at Fort Bliss to provide program analysis for future Air Defense systems. From 2006 to 2011, Mr. Edwards served as an Operations Research Systems Analyst for the TRADOC Analysis Center at the White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. There he conducted tactical wargame development, data analysis supporting major acquisition decisions, studied battlefield phenomenology, and performed geospatial analysis. In 2007 he received the Army Modeling and Simulation Award as a member of the Land Warrior M&S Integration Team. In 2009, he received the Army Achievement Medal for Civilian Service for operational analytic support to the Joint IED Defeat Organization. Mr. Edwards graduated from West Point in 1998, earning a Bachelor of Science in Comparative Politics with a track in Systems Engineering. He also holds a Bachelor of Arts from St. Leo University in Criminal Justice and Homeland Security. In 2009, he earned a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering from New Mexico State University. In 2016 he completed a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the University of Tampa. His professional education includes the Army Civilian Education System Intermediate Leaders Course, Operations Research Military Application Course, the Kirkpatrick Certified Professional – Silver Level for training evaluation, the People Analytics Workshop at MIT, the Design Thinking Workshop at Harvard University, the Strategic Planning Workshop at Georgetown University, and the Return On Investment (ROI) course from the Phillip's ROI Institute. His hobbies include playing guitar, fishing, and writing short stories (fiction) for publication.